A Storm is a Brewin’

There’s something a brewing, I can smell it in the air. I can feel it in my bones too. There’s a change in the weather.

I shared that I felt trouble was a brewing at a cultivating community gathering a month or two back. I joked that I felt the need to invest in some armour as I had this feeling that some folk are plotting to undermine the local work. Maybe linked to local politics, maybe not. Anyway, by the time I’d shared how I was feeling in the small group I’d talked myself into remembering my ability to weather any storm when working from the heart space, with nothing but interest in seeing the community that I live in connect and grow into its natural potential. 

Who’d of thought such a humble intention could upset so many apple carts? 

It’s really interesting to see what happens on so many different levels when you start meddling with the status quo and the domineering narrative. 

I’m not yet able to articulate the trouble that I sense, in a way that might make sense to others. I’m sure the sentences will form in good time.

For now I observe with curiosity and an air of weariness. Such a waste of energy when there’s  good and proper transitioning work to be done.

It reminded me of The Journey by Mary Oliver

One day you finally knew what you had to do,

and began,
though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice—
though the whole house began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!” each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy was terrible.
It was already late enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do—
determined to save
the only life you could save.